Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Wrong [future] date on backup computer; rdiff-backup fails

[dean gaudet]

i'd try something like:

find mirror -type f -print0 | xargs -0 touch -d "yesterday"

that might cause rdiff-backup to recompare everything and set the 
timestamps appropriately...

if that doesn't work then try uncompressing the latest mirror_metadata 
file and using perl or something to set the ModTimes all to 0 (and 
recompressing)... either this or the find should work to cause 
rdiff-backup to recompare everything (and set the correct timestamps on 
the files and in the next mirror_metadata).

there should probably be an option to recompare everything actually... 
shouldn't be hard to add this feature.  (patches welcome :)

-dean

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, gardyloo wrote:

> Hi, all,
> 
>      I've done a small amount of searching on the wiki and google, and
> haven't found a solution. Perhaps someone can enlighten me!
> 
>      I rdiff-backup a couple of systems to a computer which runs SUSE
> 10.0 (the destination machine). Unfortunately, that computer happens to
> have a combination of components which means that for a long time, its
> clock was running twice as fast as it should. The time is now fixed. As
> a consequence, backups done during that time were timestamped as being
> up to a couple of weeks from now, *in the future*. Naturally,
> rdiff-backup complains that "Time of Last [sic] backup is not in the
> past..." and will halt.
>      It is not a critical thing, as I can easily wait until a few weeks
> elapse on the destination machine to back things up (meanwhile backing
> up those source systems to somewhere else). I could also fiddle with
> clocks. However, is there another way to back up nicely without losing
> the old backups on that "future" computer? I'm a little leery that if I
> use the 'force' option, the increments will be messed up.
> 
>              Regards,
>                             Curtis O.
> 
> P.S. The wiki site seems to have been hit by some sort of
> advertisement/linking robot (I'm not sure of the correct terminology)
> which is putting some interesting links on there. For example, the page
> http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki has
> such things as "schoolgirl closeout" and "tits resellers". Neat! Looks
> like a domain based in Poland.
> 
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